Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 A Performance Spring 1891 - Hartford, Connecticut -- Chapter 2 1839 -- Chapter 3 Slavery and the Clemens Family -- Chapter 4 The Abolition Movement across the River -- Chapter 5 The Contest Begins -- Chapter 6 The Trial of Thompson, Work, and Burr -- Chapter 7 Judge John Marshall Clemens -- Chapter 8 Slavery and the Churches of Hannibal -- Chapter 9 The Theology of Slavery -- Chapter 10 The Face of Domestic Slavery in Hannibal -- Chapter 11 The Siege Begins -- Chapter 12 The Emancipation and Colonization Movement -- Chapter 13 1849 and 1850 Terror in Marion County -- Chapter 14 Sam Clemens and the Press in Slave Culture -- Chapter 15 Runaway Slaves and Slave Resistance -- Chapter 16 Battling Abolitionists in the Press The Enemy Without -- Chapter 17 Dehumanizing the Slave in the Press -- Chapter 18 The Slave Trade in Hannibal -- Chapter 19 Leaving Hannibal and Taking a Swipe at the Abolitionists -- Chapter 20 The Great Change The Railroad -- Chapter 21 Steamboating Days -- Chapter 22 Sam Clemens Comes Back to Fight -- Postscript -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.